Official Mayan End of the World Thread. Midnight tonight. Post your observations.

Tonight, as the calendar rolls over to 12/21/2012, we should all post here describing the end of the world as it happens around us. Make sure to charge up your laptops or UPS batteries.

One question. Will destruction roll across the planet according to the time zones, or will it occur everywhere at midnight, Mayan time? What time zone were the Mayans in at the time they created those calendars made the prediction?

We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a scientist with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence, people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion over this small spinning fragment of solar driftwood which, by chance or design, humanity has inherited out of the dark mystery of Time and Space.

Yet, across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that, to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle--intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic--regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. In the twelfth year of the third millenium came the great disillusionment.

It was the third week of December. Business was better. The president had said the wars would soon be winding down. More people were back at work. Home sales were picking up. On this particular evening, December 20th, Nielsen's Total Internet Audience metric estimated that one hundred and thirty-two million people were on-line in the USA, Tweeting, updating the FaceBook statuses, uploading pix of their dinners to Instagram and IMing links to cat videos on YouTube to their friends.

The top trending topic on Twitter was,
#ElMundoNoSeAcabaHastaQueYo ("The World Doesn't End Until I")

Last edited by Toucanna; 12-20-2012 at 01:33 PM.
Reason: With apologies to Orson Welles

To the party at the end of the world (end of the world)
Where the locals do that tango twirl (tango twirl)
I don't care about "the Rapture"
When there's native girls to capture
There's a party at the end of the world

Who cares if there's no playa
We'll be rocking in Ushuaia
At the party at the end
You surely must attend
The party at the end of the world

-"Party At the End of the World"

They say this universe is bound to blow
But I say we crank up the calypso control
Apocalyp, apocalyp, apocalypso

Now I'm no dancer as dancers go
But this is one step that you need to know
Apocalyp, apocalyp, apocalypso
We'll be dancing when we go

So do we all die at the beginning of the 21st... or the end? I've really got to figure out how to plan my day. Right now I've got a haircut scheduled at 2pm tomorrow and should probably let them know if I won't be there due to the end of the world, but then again if it isn't until the end of the day I really need that haircut.

This is really inconvenient. I wish they were doing a better job of communicating about this.

Yeah ... we need to get this straight. Tonight at midnight, I'm pretty sure I'll be sleeping. Tomorrow at midnight I'm pretty sure I'm going to be lit up like a Christmas tree -- a much better state-of-mind for end-of-the-world type festivities.

8:22 am here on 21 December in Australia. No signs of anything unusual, no more zombies on the road than normal.

Yeah, but as stated above, it won't happen until midnight in the Mayan time zone, so there are still over 8 hours left, and about 5 additional hours if it happens on the solstice.

I recall there was similar speculation when Harold Camping's doomsday dates came around last year; it makes a lot more sense if whatever is going to happen occurred all at once (especially something like a planet smacking into Earth).

It's just after 6 AM in Thailand. Everything looks OK. Sky is lightening in the SouthEast, where I see a bright Star -- I hope it's just Venus and not some Mayan Goddess-Star of Destruction. Wife and daughter seem to be going about their usual morning activities, as though we were all still alive. Exception is son, who'd be up and playing computer games, but is instead sleeping in. That is calendar-related but not Mayan: Friday is not one of the days that he's allowed to play computer games.

In the time it took me to type above paragraph, SouthEastern sky has brightened a bit more. I'm turning optimistic!

12:37 am in Germany, and the closest thing to disaster right now is that I still have Christmas packages sitting around waiting for me to finish wrapping them up so I can bring them to the post office. Why didn't I do this a week ago? Why am I always taken by surprise by Christmas? I suck.

However, no signs of earthquake, tsunami, unexplained rumbles or great flashes of fire or Cthulhu rising from the depths to destroy our fragile mortal minds. Bit of a letdown, really. So far, at least.

Why does it have to happen the moment the calendar rolls over? Couldn't The End happen at any time during that day, right up to 11:59 PM (in whatever time zone you want to pretend is relevant)?

Of course you're right, it could happen any time up till the last second of the day, but it's inevitable that most people won't grasp that. Every horror movie has to have that collective "Phew, we're safe" moment before disaster strikes.

FUCK... Ok, what can I say... I made a mistake. Yes, I was wrong... there, I said it. So for anyone who I gave my money or worldly possessions to.... yeah, I messed up and was wrong... can you please give them back... please?

Wait... there is still this time zone thing. Hold on. I may still be right.

Weird. My wife and I decided we wanted to make spaghetti for our last meal before the apocalypse. It cooked up fine and I was draining the spaghetti over the sink when... all the pasta just up and disappeared! Poof!

I couldn't figure out what was going on. Then all of a sudden it hit me. We had purchased all our kitchenware in Mexico last year. Stupid me. I was using a Mayan colander.

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